PARALLEL SESSIONS (11.15–12.45)

CYBER I

Lection Hall Yrjö-Maunu at Ritaritalo

Russian cyber fortress or house of cards? How independent Russia is from the other countries in the cyber sphere? What kind of vulnerabilities or opportunities are ingrained in the building of Russian-originated cyber capabilities? How original Russia can be in this sphere?

Mari Ristolainen, FDRA, Delineation, Protection and Control of Digital Borders: The Russian National Segment of the Internet

Daivis Petraitis, Lithuanian MoD, A new Russian strategic C4I

SECURITY POLICY I

Lection Hall Itälinnake at Santahamina Building

Enemy images as part of strategic communication in contemporary Russia and China. Who are the enemies in the current Russian official foreign policy discourse and why? How public perception of patriotism is changing in contemporary Russia?

PARALLEL SESSIONS (14.00–15.30)

CYBER II

Lection Hall Yrjö-Maunu, at Ritaritalo

What are the core assumptions of Russian cyber strategy? To what extent it differs from the western approach? What are Russian objectives in cyber sphere domestically and internationally? What Russia wants from the international cooperation in this sphere? How western policies on cyber domain have evolved in the recent years?

Traditions of malign information influence, new techniques of election manipulation. What can we learn from the latest elections? how ‘strategic narratives’ and disinformation are woven into Russian foreign policy discourses and how this influences its international relations and diplomacy.

The panel is organized together with the European Center of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats.

Chair: Vytautas Keršanskas, Hybrid CoE

Saara Jantunen, FDRA, Counter-norms as the building blocks of the authoritarian strategic narrative

Derek Averre, University of Birmingham, How ‘strategic narratives’ and disinformation are woven into Russian foreign/security policy discourses

Precious N Chatterje-Doody, University of Manchester, Politicians, people, power: RT and the curation of global news